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> Your best bet at running 16 bit Windows applications on a modern OS is running them via Wine. Fun fact, you can use a WineVDM-based 16bit emulator on Windows
by badsectoracula 5y ago
> Your best bet at running 16 bit Windows applications on a modern OS is running them via Wine.
Fun fact, you can use a WineVDM-based 16bit emulator on Windows[0] that translates 16bit calls to 32/64bit calls and install it system-wide thus allowing the use of 16bit programs in 64bit Windows. Here are two examples from screenshots i have around: Microlathe[1], a small utility to build 3D models by rotating a line around an axis (i also made my own clone[3] of it) and [2]a free Smalltalk environment (Smalltalk Express - which i actually consider one of the simplest Smalltalk environments since it only contains a small subset of what you'd find in a modern one thus making it easier to grok).
[0] https://github.com/otya128/winevdm https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
[1] https://i.imgur.com/e26mqWP.png https://i.imgur.com/e26mqWP.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/r5aQNyJ.png https://i.imgur.com/r5aQNyJ.png
[3] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/lila/ http://runtimeterror.com/tools/lila/